AP World History Review Period 3: Regional and Trans-Regional Interactions c. 600 CE – c. 1450 CE Bill Strickland East Grand Rapids High School East Grand Rapids, MI bstrickl@egrps.org
KC 3.1 Expansion & Intensification of Communication & Exchange Networks Improved transportation technologies & commercial practices led to increased trade volume, & expanded geog range of trade networks Movement of peoples caused linguistic & environmental effects
KC 3.1 Expansion & Intensification of Communication & Exchange Networks Exchange fostered by intensification of existing, or creation of new networks Continuity: diffusion of crops & pathogens through E Hemisphere along trade routes.
KC 3.2 Continuity & Innovation of State Forms & their Interactions Empires collapsed & reconstituted; in some regions new state forms emerged. Inter-regional contacts & conflicts btwn states/empires encouraged significant technological & cultural transfers btwn Tang China & Abbasids across Mongol empires/khanates during the Crusades
KC 3.3 Increased Economic Productive Capacity & Its Consequences Innovations stimulated agric & industrial production Fate of cities varied greatly Periods of significant decline/increased urbanization buoyed by rising productivity/expanding trade
KC 3.3 Increased Economic Productive Capacity & Its Consequences Continuities: Social structures shaped by class/caste Patriarchy persisted; however, women exercised more power/influence (Mongols & W Africa, Japan & SE Asia) Methods of Production free peasant agriculture nomadic pastoralism craft production/guilds coerced/unfree labor gov’t imposed labor taxes military obligations
KC 3.3 Increased Economic Productive Capacity & Its Consequences Changes in labor management & effects of religious conversion on gender relations & family life Diffusion of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Neo-Confucianism led to significant changes in gender relations/family structure. New forms of coerced labor appeared: serfdom in Europe & Japan Incan mit’a Free peasants resisted attempts to raise dues and taxes by staging revolts Demand for slaves for military & domestic purposes increased